10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

One thinks, for example, of Robert Stroud, though he had the advantage, or excuse, of being locked in a small cell for life, as the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.). As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay. But she had one health concern after another.

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Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. We need to give hunters new opportunities and new species to hunt.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 255

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. " But I'm asking you to consider looking past your emotional bias, and taking a morally logical view of this situation. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? Ok, that last example might be more indicative of obsession than something from the world of Doug Henning but I bet you get the point. It will be birding on the sly at its best and if the birds are singing, I might even break 100 species.

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Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some chapters focus on one species (Yellow Warbler), some on several related species (Chickadees and Nuthatches). We simply refuse to squee.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

That’s when the state and feds demand that we fill out complicated forms detailing every bird we’ve taken in during the year, supposedly using the North American Ornithological Society’s abbreviation for each species. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 231

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Narrative from seasoned ethologists provides interpretation informed by their knowledge about a particular species and its behavior, and their attention to context and individual peculiarities" (37). Bekoff and Pierce "advocate a species-relative view of morality.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I thought your post from the other day about birders simply introducing themselves to each other was a fantastic example of this sort of change. One thing that unites those three is that they’re spectacular species I’ve had multiple chances of seeing and so far missed.

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Delaware Colorado 2012 Advocacy 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

She also likes to wag her finger at you – you know who I mean: you – for your complicity, as an individual and as a member of the species, in the supposed imminent destruction of the planet. And she’s overfond of alliteration, as in, for example, “Those who notice the spreading soul-sickness swallow sour pills of confusion and regret.”

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Cleveland Emotional Whales Whaling 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

for only one example) he jotted down 410 separate behavioral acts – despite being tortured by the horrid black flies of Maine (where he has a cabin, and whence his observations come). Patience: Nothing in the natural world seems to escape Heinrich’s notice, and this is not surprising given his ability to stick to his task.

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Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. The Flame Bowerbird, for example. The birds Rist grabbed included Resplendent Quetzals, Spangled Cotingas, Red-ruffed Fruitcrows, and Birds of Paradise collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself. Mostly adult males. Frustrated with the U.S.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Fox encounters 69 species, some singly, some in huge feeding or migrating flocks. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Here are a few examples from my picture archives: Black-headed Gulls – or Black-haired Gulls? Gulls are deep and meaningful creatures.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

The Beautiful Sibia is one of 11 bird species listed in the HBW with the word “beautiful” in its name. However, the Latin species name is desgodinsi after Auguste Desgodins, a French missionary whose sole claim to fame seems to be that he attempted to enter Tibet in the early 1860s. Nationalism still sucks.

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China India Birds North Korea 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

I therefore finished the year on a high note, seeing quite a few species I scarcely got to see during the previous years. So here they are, my top 10 bird species of 2016, in no particular order except for No. This allowed for my first very nice views at this species since the year 2001, which made me very happy.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101